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Sunday November 18, 2012 9:36 AM

CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) — A district attorney in upstate New York has admitted that he acted in
pornographic movies in the 1970s and lied when questioned about it this year during his re-election
campaign.

Mark Suben, the district attorney in Cortland County near Syracuse since 2008, held a news
conference on Friday to say he lied about his past in the days before this year’s election.

“Recently, materials have been circulated alleging that I was involved in the adult-film
industry about 40 years ago in New York. Those allegations are true,” he said. “I was an actor in
adult films for a short period in the early ’70s. I was also an actor in other venues, including
off-Broadway, soap operas and commercial advertisements.”

The Democrat apologized for his actions and said he used “bad judgment” by acting in porn and in
lying about it. He wouldn’t take questions, including whether he should resign. On his way out of
the news conference, several people said: “You lied to me, Mark.”

Suben’s spokeswoman, Aimee Milks, said Suben will not resign.

“I think the situation is really irrelevant to the campaign,” she said. “His record as the DA
for the last four years speaks for itself.”

WSTM-TV in Syracuse published a story on Friday that said Suben had acted under his name and the
pseudonym Gus Thomas.

“A few weeks ago, when asked, I denied this to members of the press,” Suben said. “I regret
that, and I apologize for it. I was shocked and embarrassed to be confronted with this so many
years later.”

The IMdB online database says Suben and Thomas are linked and classified as alternate names. The
name Gus Thomas appears in films such as
Lecher and
The Love Witch. Mark Suben appears in the credits for the nonpornographic 1976 movie
Angels.

His Republican opponent in the Nov. 6 election, Cortland lawyer Keith Dayton, did not return a
call seeking comment, but he told the
Syracuse Post-Standard he wasn’t concerned about Suben’s acting history.

“I think the more important part is the lying,” he told the newspaper.